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I've got the flash... now all i need is to beable to put it infront of my website.... can someone please do a quick break down on what to do? I figure i must make a php or html file and put the flash in, then change somthing to make it work?

TIA

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Hi, yes the flash has to be embedded into a page. Here is a typical embed code, put the swf dimensions for your movie in, and the path to the swf as well as the swf name.

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so i guess the next Q is: where do i embed this? or do i make this as a seperate php or html and put a script path somewhere to lead to the"intro.php" that would contain the flash intro? I can make the flash page intro... all i need to know is where do i embed it. or what the script is to put to lead to the intro.php. separately or in the index.php? sorry for being so confusing hehe

...(backs away slowly..) You lost me somewhere after "where do i embed this?"

Whatever your front page is, index.htlm/php/asp whatever, or default/html/php/asp, is where you'd put the code to embed the flash movie. Basically, the page that you want it to appear on is where you put it. If that particular part of the page is being called as an include, or something similar, you'd put the code on that include page.

I think that is the answer to what I think is your question, but let me know if I misunderstood.

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lol my bad... what i mean to say is: i see sites that have a flash before you enter their site with a 'skip flash click button.'

I want to do this to my site too.

I have the flash i want to use with the skip button that has my url embeded in it, but i dont know how to put it up before my site like a door. So...

1. i make a php or html with the script that plays the flash and then link it to my index.php? if so, how do i do that and with what proper script?

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2. i can embed the whole 'intro page flash' into somewhere in my index.php or somewhere else to make it work? if so, how do i do that and with what proper script?

sorry for the double talk.. im tired hehe

Ahhh, you mean a Flash splash page (pauses to untie knot in toungue).

In most cases peeps use the index page to be the splash page, the skip button is just a link (either within the movie or directly on the page) to the next page in the site. The Flash will usually redirect to that page too when the animation is done. The Page can be HTML, PHP or whatever.

Splash pages were very popular a few years ago, but became unfashoinable because search engine spiders choked on them. These days spiders are smarter, and can follow links from the splash page a lot better.
Even so, most people are in too much of a hurry to wait for animations to load, and the 'Skip Movie' buttons get a lot of attention.

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ty for the enlightenment!!! I guess that makes alot of sense. That is why I post here!

For your helping me, I invite you to 2 free lessons when I am done if you want! You can give it away or use it for yourself!

Thanks again you guys are great!

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I just did one for my site and I made a file called intro.html and the put what need to go into it for the flash intro then added a link inside the flash to the main page....which if I am reading right you already did in your flash....then in your index.html file just do a redirect to that page you made for the flash